Texas Children's Hospital

Opened in 1954, Texas Children's Hospital is one of the nation’s largest pediatric hospitals and the primary pediatric teaching hospital for Baylor College of Medicine. Texas Children's serves as both a primary community hospital and a tertiary referral center. All medical, laboratory and nursing services are geared to the unique requirements of the child and adolescent. With its complex diagnostic and therapeutic equipment, including its own operating rooms, MRI unit, CT scanners, interventional radiology unit, EEG laboratory, nuclear medicine unit, and cardiac catheterization laboratory, the hospital is recognized for its leading-edge technology. BCM professors serve as service chiefs and staff physicians of Texas Children's more than 40 patient care centers.

Training opportunities

Texas Children’s provides extensive training in treating the special and demanding needs of infants, children, and adolescents, including those with the most complex diagnostic and treatment conditions. House staff rotations at Texas Children's include general medical and surgical inpatient services, subspecialty inpatient services, nurseries, neonatal and pediatric intensive care units, an intermediate care unit, and the outpatient and emergency departments.

In-patient training

Inpatient services include general level of care units, some of which are dedicated to specialties such as hematology-oncology, cardiology and pulmonary disease, as well as special units such as pediatric intensive care, neonatal intensive care and level 2 nurseries. The West Tower Building houses most inpatient services, the emergency center and the operating rooms.

Out-patient training

An adjacent 17-story outpatient building houses a variety of general medical, surgical, and specialty clinics. The outpatient departments have general medical and surgical services as well as 38 subspecialty programs. The ambulatory facilities serve as referral centers for infants and children with difficult diagnostic and treatment problems.

Other training

The various facilities also provide for many of the residents' continuity clinic experience through longitudinal assignments that provide residents with the opportunity to follow a panel of patients during the three years of training. The 20-story Feigin Center houses the hospital's computer center and otherwise is committed to pediatric research.